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The Monuments Men

Zachary Taylor is the strange exception to the rule of lesser-known presidents’ namesake sites. Rather than a motel, post office or rest stop, Zachary Taylor got a plum state park in the Florida Keys, centered around a Civil War-era fort, named after him. The park’s website boasts that “it is undisputed that the beach at Fort Taylor is the best in Key West.” If only Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland and the rest of our less memorable presidents had been so lucky.